I brought a bunch of technical books home for the holiday, with the idea of working on a web service to help me get things done. So far, I haven’t opened any of the books, nor have I touched the project.

Instead, I’ve been practicing GND: Getting Nothing Done.

That’s not quite true: I have managed to enter a couple of shelves’ worth of books into LibraryThing, I’ve read a few books (mostly not fiction) and have blogged about them, and I even spent a day adapting some code I’d written for my Temple to their new membership data system. And I’ve been going to the JCC a lot (and eating a lot of tasty food to make up for it). But, in general, I’ve been enjoying my downtime (and, very specifically, I have not checked my work email).

But I’m beginning to feel restless. I’m not quite to the point that Todd wrote about earlier today: “[Y]ou may have reached that consummate stage of holidaydom where you’re not enjoying your down time much — you know, the part where you’re bored out of your mind and need to get a technology news or general Web fix” but I could see myself there in another few days.

So it’s time to dust off the to-do list and start looking at it. Looking can’t hurt, can it?

Jeff is now, by definition, finished improving his Common App — he submitted it (along with supplements and *sigh* payments) to three colleges this evening. He still has three more to do (each of which wants its own essay), along with one more college which hasn’t Gotten With The Program yet.

I’m not sure if this is easier or harder for him than it was for me — certainly it’s much easier to apply to more schools, but then again, there are more people competing at each school, too. But if nothing else, he has the advantage of being able to fix typos and the like without retyping an entire sheet!